(Closed) mouse in my apartment

Last night I saw a mouse in my bedroom! I rent a 4 bedroom/4 bath in a college town and don’t know my other roommates very well. I’d been out of town for almost a week for a funeral and last night I heard something rustling in some of my papers. I shook my bag and a mouse ran out my bedroom door! Needless to say I was petrified and called my boyfriend (LDR, ugh). I finally went to sleep and figured I would resolve it in the morning.

Well I woke up to rustling and guess who was back? As soon as he saw I was awake, the mouse zoomed out my door (under the crack). I didn’t see him for the rest of the day (though did call maintenance).

I left for classes and whatnot and got home. Not ten minutes went by before the mouse came running under the door. As soon as he noticed I was in my room he zipped back outside. Every time I try to follow him, I can’t see where he goes. Our common area is pretty immaculate and there aren’t many places he could hide. My room is cluttered, so you’d think he’d live in here but he keeps running out of the room to somewhere else– leading me to think his “home” is elsewhere.

I barricaded my door to make myself feel better, only to have the sucker try to run back in 10 minutes later, squeezing through a tiny crack! He really wants in my room and it’s a bit unnerving.

I don’t want to clean up dead mouse bodies or wake up to the crunch of a trap in the middle of the night, so I’ve rigged up a ramp to a bucket with a pudding cup in the bottom just inside my bedroom door. Does anyone have any less-ghetto suggestions of how to get this mouse out of my home?

@Miss Joker: I have worked with animals for years, but I was squealing in my underwear standing on my bed when I first saw him. I’m getting more used to him… but it’s still way creepy when he just runs in under the door. I’m not happy maintenance didn’t come by today.

@bookworm88: I suspected that a mouse was in my first apartment (just before Fiance moved in with me) and I dropped everything, left my apartment, and drove to his place. I’m proud that you stayed.

EDIT: I just read the last part of your post. We used a humane trap to catch the mouse. It comes with a paste that smells like peanut butter to attract the mouse and when the mouse crawls in it closes. Side note: If you happen to go out for a long period of time, the trap is no longer humane as the mouse will probably be trapped and starve.

Oh, if my SO lived any closer, I would have been in his bed in a heartbeat– we’re 5 hours apart so he had to help me via phone… which mostly consisted of him laughing at me and then telling me I would be fine and that he needed to go back to sleep.

I love cats and wish I had one! it’d be so much less scarier! I’m at work and class from 8am-5pm tomorrow, so hopefully the mouse won’t get into too much trouble then– or even better, maintenance will actually come and take care of him? I just don’t know why he keeps trying to come in my room! I don’t have food!